Cruelty Quotes
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.Albert Einstein
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.William Shakespeare, Henry V
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.Pope John Paul II
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.Rue McClanahan
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.Frederick Douglas
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.Raisa M. Gorbachev
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason